Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, 1965. — 16 p. This handbook is a guide in establishing and implementing Zero Defects. Its primary purpose is to provide a review of the basic philosophy and principles of Zero Defects, with particular emphasis on planning, management support, error cause removal, recognition and measurement of achievement, and ways and means sustain...
Автор неизвестен American Journal of Ophthalmology, 1953, vol.36, no.10, p. 1333-1335 The advantages of adopting a uniform classification for retrolental fibroplasia are obvious. If ophthalmologists and pediatricians can agree on the designation of the successive stages, investigate efforts in the future can be based on uniform definitive diagnostic criteria.
Esri Press, 2025. — 354 p. — ISBN-13 978-1589488113 As GIS technology has evolved and grown, so has the language of this powerful tool. Elevate your understanding of GIS with the newly updated and expanded third edition of A to Z GIS: An Illustrated Dictionary of Geographic Information Systems. With more than 1,400 new terms and nearly 400 high-quality illustrations, this...
Management Services. — Jun 1995. — V. 39. — No. 6. — P. 20 Vozmozhnost (Opprtunity in English), a Russian 'Not for profit' organisation established to help develop small business activity and their business development advisor Christopher Pitt, a volunteer through East European Partnership (EEP) have launched an exciting new project in Nizhny Novgorod with the establishment of...
American Society of Testing Materials, 1940. — 73 p. This manual discusses the application of statistical method to the problem of: (a) condensing the information contained in a set of observations and (b) presenting the essential information in a concise form more readily interpretable that the unorganized mass of original data.
University of Texas Press, 2020. — 448 p. Thanks to its size and geographic position, Texas is home to nearly 30,000 species of insects, likely making its insect population the most diverse in the nation. Ranging from eastern and western to temperate and tropical species, this vast array of insects can be difficult to identify. In Common Insects of Texas and Surrounding States,...
Berlin: Volk und Wissen. — 16 S. Очень интересный и насыщенный журнал, где есть и обучающие моменты и интересные истории, сказки, анекдоты, кроссворды, загадки, ребусы и даже советы.
Springer, 2022. — 254 p. — ISBN-13 : 978-3031167263 This book contains a set of chapters covering all aspects of geosciences related to Kuwait and adjacent regions, including Iran, Saudi Arabia and the Arab Gulf states. It covers basic information about the geology including a wide range of geoscientific disciplines such as marine geology, structural geology, hydrogeology and...
Springer, 2023. — 81 p. This book explores the potential of advanced microwave techniques, specifically microwave-assisted pyrolysis, for the production, adsorption, and regeneration of activated carbon (AC) as a promising solution to address wastewater pollution caused by dyes. The author begins with a chapter devoted to the environmental implications of water pollution and...
Springer, 2023. — 593 p. — ISBN-13 978-3031413285. Large-scale chemical fertilizer application causes irreparable damage to soil structure, mineral cycles, soil microbial flora, plants, and other food chains across ecosystems, culminating in heritable mutations in future generations of consumers. A better way forward is the use of nanofertilizers to focus on macro elements (N,...
Springer, 2025. — 187 p. This book is a comprehensive and detailed overview of the most contemporary techniques in orthodontics. It will help readers to understand complex software systems, software integrations and the equipment needed to deliver the latest techniques to patients undergoing orthodontic treatment. The book has been written in an easy-to-understand way and...
CRC Press, 2025. — 248 p. — ISBN-13 978-1032688107. Artificial Intelligence in Heat Transfer shows how artificial intelligence (AI) tools and techniques, such as artificial neural networks, machine learning algorithms, genetic algorithms, etc., provide practical benefits specific to thermal sciences. It presents case studies involving heat and mass transfer, multi-objective...
Springer, 2021. — 383 p. — ISBN-13 : 978-3030606824 This book is a tribute to all those people who have worked in the different projects of pure and applied science, and educational, and human resources training, granted to this founding program and associated laboratories of the regional center of CONICET in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. The twenty papers which...
Springer, 2024. — 292 p. — ISBN-13 : 978-3031711893 This book provides a compilation of basic information on the topic of the Patagonian Shelfbreak front, but integrally reanalyzes this under modern paradigms. The book provides a synthesis of the ecosystem characteristics, encompassing physical and chemical oceanography, plankton, nekton and benthos communities, fisheries and...
Greystone Books, 2018. — 265 p. In Best Places to Bird in the Prairies, three of Canada's top birders reveal their favorite destinations for spotting local birds in Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. They highlight thirty-six highly recommended sites, each of which has been expertly selected for the unique species that reside there. With exclusive lists of specialty birds,...
Springer, 2023. — 83 p. Do you ask yourself what this ‘agility hype’ is actually about and in what cases agility really creates benefits? Would you like to know how to make processes more agile? Do you fancy the idea of using agile methods but don't know how to explain it to your ISO 9001 auditor? This is the book you’ve been waiting for! Written from a quality management...
Texas A&M University Press, 2003. — 269 p. — ISBN-13 978-1585442959 On the morning of January 1, 2000, Mark T. Adams started counting birds. His goal was to find the largest possible number of species in one year in Texas, an undertaking known in birding parlance as a Big Year. By the evening of December 31, he had tied the record of 489 species seen or heard within the state’s...
Springer, 2024. — 486 p. This book is the first board review atlas in Pediatric Cardiology. Chapters cover high-yield and image-based board-style questions with full explanations. This book utilizes images from fetal echocardiography, transthoracic echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography, cardiac computed tomography, cardiac magnetic resonance, 12 lead...
CRC Press, 2021. — 464 p. — ISBN-13 978-1032010656 Quantum mechanics is a general theory of the motions, structures, properties, and behaviors of particles of atomic and subatomic dimensions. While quantum mechanics was created in the first third of the twentieth century by a handful of theoretical physicists working on a limited number of problems, it has further developed and...
Wiley-Scrivener, 2025. — 387 p. — ISBN-13 : 978-1394212637 The intervention of microbial biotechnology in various sectors has displayed remarkable growth linked to sustainable innovations and biotechnological utilization of beneficial microorganisms, such as mushrooms, for the benefit of humanity. Recent advancements in mushroom biotechnology will prove successful due to...
CABI, 2024. — 248 p. The coconut palm (Cocos nucifera L.) is one of the world's most important palms, and contributes significantly to the income and livelihood of many people in tropical countries. Widely referred to as the "tree of life," coconut has been used as a source of food, drink, oil, medicine, shelter and wood for around 500 years. Every part of the coconut palm can...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 329 p. Conversations in Critical Psychiatry brings together an edited selection of interviews published in the Psychiatric Times from 2019 to 2022, updated with new and previously unpublished material. These interviews explore critical and philosophical perspectives in psychiatry by engaging with prominent commentators within and outside the...
Springer, 2024. — 367 p. — ISBN-13 : 978-3031590238 In many parts of the world, soil and water are slightly to moderately contaminated with metals and metalloids such as Cd, Cu, Zn, Ni, Co, Cr, Pb, Si, B and As. This could be due to long-term use of phosphatic fertilizers, sewage sludge application, dust from smelters, industrial waste and bad watering practices in agricultural...
Springer, 2023. — 336 p. — ISBN-13 : 978-3031430282 Abiotic stressors, such as drought, extreme temperatures, heavy metals, or high salinity, are causing huge crop losses worldwide. These abiotic stressors are expected to become more extreme, less predictable, and more widespread in the near future. The harm of abiotic stresses includes the disruption of cellular redox...
Wiley-Scrivener, 2025. — 322 p. — ISBN-13 978-1394302802 Strigolactones, a fascinating and rapidly evolving class of plant hormones, have garnered significant attention in plant biology over the past decade. Initially discovered for stimulating the germination of parasitic plants, strigolactones are now recognized as key regulators of numerous plant processes, including growth,...
SLACK Inc, 2013 — 343 p. As Einstein put it very aptly, “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” Ophthalmology, being a field that is advancing by leaps and bounds, puts the ophthalmic surgeon right into the middle of having to grasp new concepts and learn new things everyday. Consequently, facing complications—expected or unexpected—is part of life....
SLACK, Incorporated, 2011. — 228 p. Illustrative Guide to Cataract Surgery by Editor, Dr. Amar Agarwal and Associate Editor, Soosan Jacob is a unique book that includes matching step-by-step clinical photographs, medical illustrations, and videos to explain the most common techniques and steps in cataract surgery. With more than 650 illustrations, ophthalmologists and residents...
SLACK, Incorporated, 2017. — 464 p. Even the most experienced cataract surgeon can encounter stressful situations in the operating room. With the new edition of More Phaco Nightmares: Conquering Cataract Catastrophes, surgeons can be prepared to manage unavoidable complications with ease.Dr. Amar Agarwal, along with over 35 of today's cataract surgery leaders, explain all there...
Thieme Medical Publishers, 2015. — 266 p. A state-of-the-art OCT resource Written by the leading authorities in the field, is a core clinical reference on this important new technology used to examine the structure of the eye. It provides residents and practicing ophthalmologists with essential information on how to use optical coherence tomography in various clinical scenarios...
Jaypee Brothers, 2009. — 376 p. Drs Amar, Athiya and Jacob have organized this Mini-Atlas on Corneal Topography that will prove useful to both specialists and nonspecialists alike. Their concise textbook provides information on the Orbscan topography unit and its usefulness in predicting and diagnosing ectasia; the Pentacam topography unit; the relation between and usefulness...
Saunders, 2012. — 1357 p. The Fifth Edition of Gass' Atlas of Macular Diseases, by Dr. Anita Agarwal, provides expert diagnostic guidance on macular disorders and quickly brings you up to date on this evolving specialty. Using a case-based approach, it richly depicts a full range of retina and macular diseases, including new infectious, degenerative, and dystrophic conditions....
Saunders, 2012. — 1357 p. The Fifth Edition of Gass' Atlas of Macular Diseases, by Dr. Anita Agarwal, provides expert diagnostic guidance on macular disorders and quickly brings you up to date on this evolving specialty. Using a case-based approach, it richly depicts a full range of retina and macular diseases, including new infectious, degenerative, and dystrophic conditions....
Saunders, 2012. — 1357 p. The Fifth Edition of Gass' Atlas of Macular Diseases, by Dr. Anita Agarwal, provides expert diagnostic guidance on macular disorders and quickly brings you up to date on this evolving specialty. Using a case-based approach, it richly depicts a full range of retina and macular diseases, including new infectious, degenerative, and dystrophic conditions....
Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers Ltd, 2009. — 252 p. Answering the needs that exist for a single pocket size reference to address the practical issues of refractive surgery that has led in advances by laser in situ keratomileusis i.e. Lasik. To fill the gap and stay current on the latest advances and changing standards, this Mini Atlas on LASIK provides knowledge on this...
SLACK Incorporated, 2015. — 336 p. Mastering Corneal Surgery: Recent Advances and Current Techniques by Drs. Amar Agarwal and Thomas John, along with more than 50 contributors, cover the most recent innovations in corneal surgery, including corneal procedures in combination with IOL implantation in eyes with deficient capsules, and combining endothelial keratoplasty with IOL...
4th ed. — De Gruyter, 2025. — 1123 p. — ISBN 9781501520594 Essential knowledge of steel-framed structure design is a cornerstone for architectural, civil, and structural engineers, as well as for students planning careers in structural design and construction. Structural Steel Design, Fourth Edition delivers a comprehensive understanding of structural steel design, starting...
McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1950. — 442 p. The plan of the text has not changed with the new authors. The primary aim is to study the interests of consumers - their likes, prejudices, and customs.
3rd ed. — CBS Publishers, 2025. — 973 p. — ISBN-13 978-9348385956 Based on Competency Based Medical Education (CBME) Curriculum, prescribed by National Medical Commission, covering all 35 chapters and 406 competencies. Including latest guidelines (updated 2023) from various national and international academic and regulatory bodies to promote evidence-based care. Incorporating...
RCPsych Publications, 2025. — 368 p. — RCPsych Publications Neuroscience is increasingly understood to ground the practice of psychiatry, but clinicians can be overwhelmed by the competing facts and unfamiliar approaches utilised. This book provides key, up-to-date findings in neuroscience, and their relevance to clinical psychiatry in an approachable format. Clinical experts...
Springer, 2024. — 751 p. — ISBN-13 978-9819711888 This book focuses solely on the issues of agricultural productivity analysis with advanced modeling approaches bringing solutions to food-insecure regions of the world, especially in south and southeast Asia and in Africa. Advanced modeling tools and their use in regional planning provide an outstanding opportunity to help face...
Production and Operations management — 1995. — Volume 4. — Issue 3. — Pages 277-306. Total quality management (TQM) is a revolutionary approach to effective management. The research in TQM has emerged from practical needs of organizations embracing this philosophy, and the literature is mostly conceptual and practitioner-oriented. There is a lack of sound theoretical framework...
Springer, 2023. — 357 p. — ISBN-13 : 978-9819938919 This book provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date review of research on vegetable plants associated with root-galls disease caused by root-knot nematodes (RKNs), Meloidogyne spp. Vegetables retain a key position in cultural cuisines and their consumption worldwide due to rich sources of micronutrients, including...
Wiley-Interscience, 2006. — 291 p. — ISBN-13 : 978-0471737483 This book examines the new and important technology of asymmetric passive components for miniaturized microwave passive circuits. The asymmetric design methods and ideas set forth by the author are groundbreaking and have not been treated in previous works. Readers discover how these design methods reduce the circuit...
Springer, 2025. — 285 p. — ISBN-13 : 978-3031773136 This book aims to collate contemporary, evidence-based literature regarding the safe and quality use of medicines in older people. It considers the role of engaging consumers in all parts of clinical care and throughout all stages of research to create real-world impact. It includes practical clinical implications from the...
Springer, 2024. — 420 p. — ISBN-13 : 978-3031480522 This book is exceptional in addressing the common radiological anatomical challenges of target volume delineation faced by clinicians on a daily basis. The clear guidance that it provides on how to improve target volume delineation will help readers to obtain the best possible clinical outcomes in response to radiation and...
Productivity Press, 2004. — 244 p. For Florida Power and Light, Hewlett-Packard, and Texas Instruments, policy deployment has created a critical bridge between corporate goals and their company-wide deployment. Hoshin Kanri offers top and middle managers a guide to customizing a policy deployment program especially suited to their company. This book is a compilation of examples...
Cambridge University Press, 2025. — 585 p. — ISBN-13 : 978-1108494731 Polyhedral Graphic Statics is a geometry-based structural design method based on polyhedral reciprocal diagrams first proposed by Rankine and Maxwell 150 years ago. Providing a unique design guide for structural form finding of efficient spatial structures, this book offers up-to-date insights into the field...
IOP Publishing Ltd, 2025. — 356 p. — ISBN-13 978-0750351607 Ultra Poincaré chaos offers an alternative to Lorenz chaos, showcasing alpha unpredictability, which is a characteristic of an isolated motion. Alpha labeling is a valuable mathematical structure for studying complexity, as well as for the entirety of dynamical systems theory. Additionally, unique historical and...
Springer, 2005. — 460 p. — ISBN-13 978-3540210528 A large number of modern problems in physics, chemistry, and quantum electronics require a consideration of population dynamics in complex multilevel quantum systems. The purpose of this book is to provide a systematic treatment of these questions and to present a number of exactly solvable problems. It considers the different...
Springer, 2025. — 289 p. — ISBN-13 : 978-3031769092 This book explores the environmental conditions, particularly the climate and soils, of one of the driest regions on earth, the Central-East of the Sahara. These factors control the ecosystems and determine the land's suitability for use. The area receives only 0.5 mm of precipitation annually and contains one of the largest...